The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20
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in case of fire, have been placed in the hall
of each of the three upper floors, making
six in all.
In General.
CHIEF-JUsTIcE CARTER of the District Of
Columbia is dead.
THERE was heavy fall of snow in New
ork city Monday.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has vetoed
the high-license bill.
A PIG with seven legs and eight feet was
born at Marshall, Ill.
EIGHT or ten men have been killed by a
rock-slide in Colorado
The business portion of GAINESVILLE Mimi,
has been destroyed by fire.
THE business part of Onancock, Va,
has been destroyed by fire.
THERE were sixteen deaths from measles
in Lowell, Mass, last week.
BISHOP LEE (EpiscopaD of Delaware died
last week, aged eighty years
THE town of Corydon, KY, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
THE business portion of Crescent City,
Florida, was burned Sunday night.
A NEBRASKA train-wrecker has been in
dicted for murder in the first degree.
SENATOR SHERMAN denies that the gen.
eral ever wrote ill of General Logan.
A WIDE section of Queensland Australia
has been flooded and crops destroyed.
THE Cars family have abandoned going
to the Crimea from fear of nihilist plots
THE funeral of John T. Raymond the
actor, was largely attended in New York.
ScHUMANN the explorer, has discovered
the entire site of Herods city of Tiberius.
A FAMILY of three persons named Taylor
were killed by a train near Waverly, n. Y.
AT Limerick Sunday, 60, 900 persons joined
i,na Il ono ra in n q a
DIR. McGLYNN was refused an introduce
ton to the Cincinnati chamber of commerce.
THE steamer Victoria was lost off Deppe,
France, and several persons were drowned.
FOURTEEN buildings at Kennebunkport,
Maine, were destroyed by fire Friday; loss
$4,000.
COLLISIONS between soldiers and civilians
took place Sunday in several places in
Ireland.
The President has appointed Alexander
II. Lawton of Georgia to be minister to
Austria.
THE coercion bill passed its second read
ing in the house of commons without
division.
IT is understood that the Canadian Pacific
is about to purchase the Canadian South
ern road.
IT showed all along the Atlantic coast
Monday. Ten inches fell in northern Penn
sylvana.
j. w. MIDDLETON of Lexington, Ind,
committed suicide by standing under a
falling tree.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND definitely accepts
an invitation to attend the Piedmont GA
fair in October.
THE English government has ordered a
strict watch on all American ships for sus-
pected dynamiters.
THE New York Zeit,ng and Nep Yorker,
German daily and weekly papers, were
burned out Sunday.
The Canadian parliament is vigorously
discussing the fisheries dispute and using
pretty strong language
In speech at Birmingham Lord Ran
dolph Churchill spoke of Mr.. Gladstone as a
political incendiary."
AT Buffalo George Peters fatally shot p.
II. Grswod, early Sunday morning, mis-
taking him for burglar
II is announced that Great Britain and
Russia have agreed upon a settlement of the
Afghan frontier question.
HEAVY snow-storms and bitter cold
weather are prevailing in the northern and
eastern portions of France.
DISSATISFACTION with the interstate law
is increasing among the manufacturers of
southwestern New Hampshire.
A WHOLESALE drugstore in Milwaukee,
owned by Charles Baumbach & Co., was
burned Thursday. Loss 100000
AN edition of the Bible in two volumes
the first book ever printed was sold in
London short time ago for $4,000.
RoCHEFoRT has published violent arti-
Gle against the Pope, accusing the latter OF
sacrificing French to German interests.
SIxTy-THREE employees of the Pan Handle
railroad have been arrested thus far, and
stolen nrOnprtV rHpnvprpI
EVERY business house in Ainsworth, Ia,
except the Wickham House, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Many people are destitute.
A PITCHED battle took place between
Kiowa Indians and cowboys near Fort
Worth, Kansas. The cowboys were victo-
rious.
A GRAND RAPIDS, Wis, dispatch says the
rise in the Wisconsin river at that point Is
the highest since 1871, and the water is still
rising.
THE German steamer " Ralatea " has been
burned in the Pacific ocean. The passen'
gers and crew were rescued after terrible
suffering.
A sCHooL-TEACHERin Williamsburg, Wis
while furnishing pupil struck him on the
wrist and the boy fell back dead. The
teacher fled.
INDICATIONS have been found in Chicago
of an oath-bound society to avenge the
death OF tne cOnuelnneu dudrcHlSJS, ii lHey
shall be hanged.
AN EXPLOSION in a Pennsylvania coal
mine caused the death of a Vassar College
student, the injury of another and of two
gentlemen friends.
THE five Central American republics
have agreed to treaty which brings them
into nearly the same mutual relations as the
states of this country.
THE shock of railroad collision in Hi
nos caused the bursting of water-tank, by
which six persons We're killed, two fatally
injured and several badly hurt.
ATTORNEY CHUTE, sent to Gogebie county
reports that no evidence of fraud in the re
count of the votes can be found.
Won RANKEs great historical library has
been purchased for the Syracuse University
by rich New York man. The library con
tains $1,000 volumes and 10000 pamphlets.
EARL SPENCER, formerly lord-lieutenan
of Ireland, made speech at Truro, in thu
course of which he condemned the govern
ment's Irish policy and advised home-rule.
A NUMBER of the Chicago contractor
having yielded to the demands OF the car
penters, some 800 of the latter returned L
work. Similar news comes from Cincinnati
The print-works of the Cocheco Mills II
Dover, n. H., were burned Thursday. Tn
loss will reach nearly $200,OO0 About si'
hundred persons are thrown out of work
Mrs. HowE's notorious woman's bank il
Boston has gone TO pieces again, swindlinl
It's gullble victims out OF about $4,000
The last smash-up was some six years ago